THE FAMILY / Marco Zanuso

 

Marco Zanuso Jr was born in 1954 in Milan, where he lives and works.

He graduated in architecture in Florence where he came into contact with the radical architecture and its references: Superstudio, Michele De Lucchi, Andrea Branzi, Ufo, Alessandro Mendini and Ettore Sottsass.

After graduation, he worked with Marco Zanuso senior and at the Milan Polytechnic as an assistant to Enzo Mari and Achille Castiglioni.

In 1991 he opened a studio in Milan with Daniele Nava, which deals with consultancy and design of residential buildings, offices, private homes and exhibitions. Among the customers Carrefour, Abet Laminati, Mondadori, Nava and the Triennale di Milano.

As a designer he has collaborated with Memphis, Fontana Arte, Bonacina 1889, Cappellini, De Padova, Design Gallery, Driade, Fragile and with the Galerie Italienne in Paris. He has also developed projects and experiments with small Italian producers and artisans collected in the book Works-Progetti published in 2017 with the publisher Corraini